Elizabeth Scalia on being bored beyond endurance : I am bored by the same people saying the same things, week after week, and by their dismaying contempt for curiosity, and by my own, too. A few days ago, the gaffe-prone (far more than the press will admit) President Obama said, “the private . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s the setup for Robert Fay’s article at Full Stop , in which the agnostic conservative British philosopher and the Nobel-prize nominated, ultra-nationalist Japanese author meet for a fictive conversation. The topic? Beauty, and the source and purpose of aesthetic judgments in . . . . Continue Reading »
I really wanted to be at the Christians in Political Science conference at Gordon College last week, but was unable to make it. Fortunately one of the highlights, Miroslav Volf’s lecture, was recorded and has been posted on youtube. One of the respondents, Dr. Paul Brink, is a former student . . . . Continue Reading »
Here are some observations from a Catholic young woman whose life “sucks” in the midst of prosperity: In my experience (I readily grant all of the problems with drawing inferences from individual and anecdotal observation), highly eligible men in my social set delay marriage for no good . . . . Continue Reading »
Blurring the Boundaries Timothy Samuel Shah, The Immanent Frame What We’re Reading (Summer 2012) Various, University Bookman Things Get Worse in Syria Notes on Arab Orthodoxy Total Recall: Wisconsin and the Jubilee Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review A Mathematician Among Creationists . . . . Continue Reading »
The fascinating J.L. Wall at THE LEAGUE OF ORDINARY GENTLEMEN notices that I invented the right term for the wonderful Marilynne Robinson. He adds that means that she’s neither a liberal nor a conservative. It does mean that she thinks everyone should work and everyone should be educated for . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been tardy because I’ve been lazy, 1. Peter Lawler is right that the public perception of the recall procedure as being inappropriate for normal political disputes helped Walker win. 2. But Walker’s policies were also popular. The least popular . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Tom Sachs, Space Program: Mars at The Park Avenue Armory, through June 17 Sachs and a small army of assistants transform the vast Armory into a lunar landscape dotted with vehicles the artist has crafted from his signature material—plywood. 2. Taryn Simon, A . . . . Continue Reading »
Very odd. A few days ago, the NYT ran a big piece claiming that even if Obamacare is overturned, it won’t matter much. From the story:But experts on health care policy say the practical effect of the court’s decision will probably be less earth-shattering than some people think. If . . . . Continue Reading »
In the wake of the Indian surrogate mother “gestational carrier’s” death and all the organ buying, and conducting unethical medical experiments on the world’s destitute, I took to the pages of the NRO to warn that “Biological Colonialism Kills:” From my . . . . Continue Reading »
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